Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

On the evening of Jan. 27, 1922, Franz Kafka arrived by horse-drawn sleigh at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, in present-day Czech Republic, and immediately began working on what would be ...

He and editor-in-chief Xander Balwit conceived of the DNA book project because they “wanted people to feel biotechnology.” He says Asimov Press has sold nearly 500 preorders so far.

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

From sandy beaches to hospital rooms, humans are leaving their DNA behind everywhere they go, scientists have found.. Researchers analysed samples gathered from the environment in the US and ...

One of the most influential biology books of the 20th century, it demonstrated how individual genes, rather than organisms, drive evolution. After 17 more works riffing on DNA and evolution ...

DNA carries the genetic information of species and has been evolving over millions of years. Earlier studies of prehistoric and historical migrations of human populations were possible only by ...

A new book, called The Tangled Tree, explains how evolution isn't exactly as Darwin understood it. About 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viral DNA that we acquired through infections ...

This idea was first popularized in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene,” which built on the ideas of the biologist W.D. Hamilton ...